I haven’t done the official totals, but it is obvious to me that “Wretched Urgency” is the IM essay that seems to describe the experiences and feelings of most of the people who say they like what I write. I even think the title may qualify as a “brand!” Time for the “Wretched Urgency” store!Continue reading “Wretched Urgency: The Grace of God or Hamsters On A Wheel?”
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The Method In The Madness: The Mystery of Joel Osteen
“This is my Bible. I am what it says I am, I have what it says I have, I can do what it says I can do. Today I’ll be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, I’ll never be the same, in Jesus name.”– CongregationalContinue reading “The Method In The Madness: The Mystery of Joel Osteen”
Those Know-Nothing Evangelicals
Over the past five years I have written a number of things that build a basic “iMonk” critique of evangelicalism. If you missed the basic class, there’s no reason you should be left out. Therefore, I present….reruns of some of my better work. Let’s find out why high profile American Evangelicals have decided to goContinue reading “Those Know-Nothing Evangelicals”
Contemporary Worship and the Walnut Street Epiphany
“Yesterday, in Louisville, at the corner of 4th and Walnut, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, ofContinue reading “Contemporary Worship and the Walnut Street Epiphany”